Stephen grew up in Southern California and attended Stanford University as an undergraduate, receiving a B.A. in Philosophy and History, with an emphasis on the Philosophy of Law, Natural Law Jurisprudence and the History of the American Founding. He served as President of the Stanford College Republicans intermittently from 2019 to 2022, helping to host stalwart conservatives such as Dinesh D’Souza, Ben Shapiro, Governor Scott Walker, Matt Walsh, and Vice President Mike Pence in Stanford’s leftist echo-chamber, as well as vanquishing any opposition. He has been quoted in Fox News, Breitbart, Conservative Review, Campus Reform, and College Fix, and written for the Stanford Review.